Dictionary

dancerette en · NOUN

Etymology

From dancer + -ette.

Meanings

1. A female dancer.
   • I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome. 2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3:
   • The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.” 1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3:
   • So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off. 2013 August 25, Tom Jackson, “Yo, freshmen: These four years will fly”, in The Pasco Tribune, page 1, column 1:

Forms

Synonyms

danceress